H. M. King Haakon VII was present at the episcopal consecration in Tønsberg Cathedral on June 20, 1948.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

He later divorced her after the marriage became a political liability, although Leon ( 1948 ) suggests it may have been due to emotional and mental abuse by Paetina.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

The tests using toads were faster than those employing mammals ; the toads were easier to raise, and, although the initial 1948 discovery employed Bufo arenarum for the tests, it soon became clear that a variety of anuran species were suitable, including the cane toad.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

The Curta calculator was developed in 1948 and, although costly, became popular for its portability.

In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, a premier private university in New York.

Palestine Potash Company supplied half of Britain's potash during World War II, but ultimately became a casualty of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

In 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show.

Hubble also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity ( and in 1948 was named the Kappa Sigma " Man of the Year ").

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

The Granville Municipality was formed in 1885 and the council carried on the local government of the area until 1948, when it became part of an enlarged City of Parramatta.

General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more authoritarian until an election in 1948.

* Radio-Craft — July 1929 to June 1948 — became Radio-Electronics

In two 1936 patent applications, Konrad Zuse also anticipated that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data — the key insight of what became known as the von Neumann architecture, first implemented in the British SSEM of 1948.

Albania became dependent on Soviet aid and know-how after the break with Yugoslavia in 1948.

Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

The first postwar elections were held in 1948 ( women were given the franchise for the first time in 1947 ), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru ( 1878 – 1967 ), became prime minister.

In 1948, when the State of Israel was founded and the IDF was formed, Imi became Chief Instructor for Physical Fitness and Krav Maga at the IDF School of Combat Fitness.

He was sent to the Russian front in 1944 and quickly became a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948.

In 1948, Qalat became part of Pakistan when the British withdrew.

In early 1948, he became a teacher in Mufulira for the United Missions to the Copperbelt ( UMCB ).

In the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Lebanon became home to more than 110, 000 Palestinian refugees.

From 1948 Ship registrations became another large new source of state revenue.

Criminal Lunatics became Broadmoor Patients in 1948 under the National Health Service Act

Strasbourg's previous cathedral, of which remains dating back to the to the late 4th century or early 5th century were unearthed in 1948 and 1956, was situated at the site of the current Église Saint-Étienne.

The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

Jordan annexed the city in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Jordan annexed the city during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Three years after the war, the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, at a time when the city had barely recovered from the war.

* 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The city was under Jordanian occupation from 1948 to 1967, and under Israeli occupation from 1967 to 1994, when control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority.

* Seuthopolis, Bulgaria-an ancient Thracian city, discovered and excavated in 1948.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

It is governed by a city council as specified in the city's charter adopted in 1948.

With the division of Berlin's city government and administration in September 1948 the Neues Stadthaus was in the Communist Ostsektor ( eastern sector ) and became off limits to West Berlin.

This service continued to operate, but the inflexibility of a tram service could not keep pace with a growing city, and the tram service ceased to operate on August 7, 1948.

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* The Hurva Synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was Jerusalem's main Ashkenazi synagogue from the 16th century until 1948, when it was destroyed by the Arab Legion several days after the conquest of the city.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the city was defended by the Iraqi Army, then captured briefly by the forces from Israel's Carmeli Brigade during the " Ten Days ' fighting " following the cancellation of the first cease-fire.

By April 1948 the city of Luoyang fell, cutting the KMT army off from Xi ' an.

Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the city has been governed by the Haifa Municipality.

Before 1948, Haifa's Municipality was fairly unique as it developed cooperation between the mixed Arab and Jewish community in the city, with representatives of both groups involved in the city's management.

It is not far from the site of Nisa, the ancient capital of the Parthian Empire, and it grew on the ruins of the Silk Road city of Konjikala, which was first mentioned as a wine-producing village in 2nd century BCE and was leveled by an earthquake in 1st century BCE ( a precursor of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake ).

From this period onward, the city experienced rapid growth and industrialisation, although this was severely disrupted by a major earthquake on October 6, 1948.

The Trusteeship Council decided on 10 March 1948 in resolution 32 ( II ) " that the statute on Jerusalem was in satisfactory form and agrees that the question of its formal approval, together with the appointment of a governor of the city, shall be taken up at a subsequent meeting to be held not later than one week before 29 April 1948 ", the deadline given to the Council by the Assembly ( on 21 April 1948, the Trusteeship Council transmitted The Resolution Along With The Draft Statute To The General Assembly ).

In 1995 the city was awarded the Bronze Medal for Civil Valour in recognition of the hard work done in clearing the region of dangerous unexploded warheads, a task that lasted well into 1948.